Blogs from Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Europe
April 14th 2012
April 14, 2012- Last night we tried to book ourselves into a tour offered by our hotel to Gibraltar, but it was booked. So I did some Internet research to try to find another tour and I didn't have much luck. SO... I decided I would rent a car to drive us to Gibraltar. This morning we had a leisurely breakfast before Emily's tour of Gibraltar pulled out of the station. We hopped onto the one highway and one hour later, we got off the highway. The Spanish seem to pretend that Gibraltar doesn't even exist, since they lost it to the English in 1704. The highway signs don't even mention Gibraltar, rather the little town on the Border called La Linea de Conception. So we meandered our way thru the town and got ourselves into line ... read more
February 25th 2012
Gibraltar was the main attraction for the trip to the Costa Del Sol. Unfortunately, flying into and staying in Gibraltar was too expensive of an option, so this is why we ended up near Malaga. Although we enjoyed exploring Malaga, we would have loved more time to explore the Rock of Gibraltar. We opted to take a "shopping" tour from Torremuelle to Gibraltar, only because the transportation was faster and cheaper than taking the public bus. It wasn't really a tour, they just provided the transportation, and we were free to roam around Gibraltar for a limited amount of time. Unfortunately, the morning didn't start off as good as the rest of the day went. After doing a meticulously good job of hiding our passports in our room so that the spanish mafia wouldn't get them, ... read more
January 17th 2012
Cadiz a Gibraltar Started off the day nice and early in Cadiz and managed to get a bus directly to a place called la Linea which is right on the border of Spain and Gibraltar, due to ongoing problems between the spanish and the british governments there is no bus service across the border. There was only a very short walk to and across the border and the weather was fantastic so no worries. Despite being told there was nowhere to leave my big bag at the bus station, found some lockers which let you leave your big rucksack for 3 euros a day. result. Walked easily across the border with my passport cover only being glnaced at and walked toward the town centres. The ariport in gibraltar which runs across the access to the pennisular ... read more
April 8th 2011
This morning's plan was to get up early, check out, store my luggage and take the cable car up to the Rock. The cable car runs so close to my balcony, that I was able to take some pictures as it went past. I made my way down to the station, but it seemed closed, so I grabbed some coffee and wrote postcards. When I went back, I found out that it was closed for maintenance. They didn't have any information, didn't care and said it could be 5 minutes, 5 hours, or all day. Thank you so very much. It boggles my mind how so many bumps and glitches there can be in a trip. The reason I came here was to go up on the Rock and see the apes and the view. Time ... read more
February 27th 2011
ZNow Wielka i great Brytania i tym razem jestesmy tu razem. Ale jaja normalnie Anglicy znowu dali popis. Zamorska kolonia kwitnie i zadziwia na kazdym kroku.Obeszlismy polwysep dookola i wielka radosc= udalo nam sie dotrzec do Punta Europa (Wrota Europy) i na horyzoncie blekitnej zatoki wyrazny zarys Afryki. Gibraltar tetni zyciem;ale zaskoczeniem jest ze do godziny 19. Potem wszyscy pracownicy;sklepikarze barmani itp wracaja do domow w hiszpanskiej La Linea bo to bardzo blisko (10 min piechota) i tanio; trzeba tylko przejsc przez pas startowy gibraltarskiego lotniska ktory jest jednoczesnie granica miedzy miasteczkami i panstwami.Okolo poludnia tez zostalismy zmuszeni do darmowego podziwiania startu samolotu spod gibraltarskiej skaly wraz z tlumkiem oczekujacych na przejscie. Ne moge sie doczekac na spotkanie z malpkami; dlatego jeszcze cos stad pewno napisze. Spotlalismy tutaj dziwnie... read more
November 14th 2010
We had a fairly leisurely start, setting off back to Gibraltar about 9am. We were ultimately aiming for the campsite where we would be meeting our overland truck for our African odyssey – the campsite being in Spain, about 20 minutes from Gibraltar. We decided to stop off first to visit Malaga though, on the way driving on more fantastically smooth highways that threaded their way through acres and acres of olive groves. It was pretty cool – and definitely felt like proper ‘Spain’ ;-) It took about 2 hours to reach Malaga, but to be honest we weren’t that impressed once we got there, I guess it was both quiet season and, like so many places in Spain, it comes alive at night – but there didn’t seem to be much of interest there during ... read more
July 10th 2010
A great day and another highlight of the tour. Well done France. Gibraltar, 10th July, 2010. Gibraltar has been a part of my growing up since I was a lad at school, a part of the essential history of my country of birth. I learned about it in my history classes and later when in the RAF it was one of my preferred options as an overseas posting. RAF Gibraltar was one of the most sought after postings in the RAF and quite a few of my friends were lucky enough to be stationed there and they had wonderful memories of that time. So landing on this particular place was almost like a coming home even though I had never been there before. A group of 6 of us hired an eight seater taxi for a ... read more
May 10th 2010
Land HO! Gibraltar, Great Britain After 9 ½ days at sea we will be in Gibraltar tomorrow morning at 5 am. Yea! This has been a great crossing. Mostly good weather and the days were filled with reading, lectures on the ports, eating, walking, visiting, eating, making new friends, watching movies on a gigantic screen outdoors on the pool deck, eating, walking the decks, eating, walking the stairs, and more stairs, and more stairs (we’re on deck 11!), and eating to keep up our strength. We crossed over 6 time zones and had to change our clocks so many times our bodies didn’t have a clue as to what time it was. In our dark little cave room (which we love) we didn’t wake up till 10 am one morning and on another night Cope was ... read more
February 10th 2010
We stayed over in Benalmadena in Spain at the Benalmadena Palace hotel. Great hotel, location is somewhat far out of the resort. By saying this, we found Benalmadena to be such an uninteresting place compared with other resorts in the Med, its is difficult to understand why so many Brits venture there. The town is spread out across a large area which makes browsing around difficult. If you're after shopping and browsing around the shops, don't bother visiting Benalmadena. The whole area including Torremolinos and Fuengirola seems to be stuck in the 1970's with very few decent restaurants, unlike those found around Greece, Turkey and other European countries we could mention. Food standards seem to be much lower than of that found in The Canary islands. On a positive note, we rented a car via Marbesol ... read more
